Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.

If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with anger and hatred. And that would be Trump's great victory: to turn us into replicas of him, just on the other side of a wall screen. I refuse to let me or my family or my movement or my friends be turned into the opposite of Trump. I want to be the antidote for Trump.

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.